Sunday, August 28, 2005
6:06 PM
'This is going to be our LAST guard duty... FOREVER!'
I announced gleefully to Ethan as I enthusiastically dragged him to start our rounds at 2am. I had explained that since this was going to be the last time, we might as well do it properly, like what those warrant officers always say: Do it once, do it good.
It was going to be our 'swansong' so to speak. From the August onwards, we would only be doing COS duties.
For him it was.
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'This better be my last guard duty'
I told myself with a sigh as I took up my arms again at 2am in the morning to go for my rounds. I had gotten an extra duty given directly by my S4 as he went through my finance documents for LRI and saw that I had not written the date for one of them even though I had promised him that my documents were all fully done. Everyone emerged from the LRI with 8 days of off, whilst I came out with 1 weekend COS extra duty.
Wouldn't have been so bad, except Thomas cocked up, and did not indicate that it was a COS duty and not a guard duty to Randy, who happily planned the first Sunday guardy duty available for me. I did not have the heart to ask Randy to plan the whole thing all over again just for me, so Final GuardDuty had an oxymoronic sequel: Final GuardDuty 2.
Think I'm unlucky? Wait till you hear about Final GuardDuty 3...
It was a pleasant Friday, pleasant because Ethan had agreed to change his Monday COS with my Saturday COS so that I could go out for dinner with RJ on Saturday. Then during last parade, our CSM began making a disturbing announcement about having been forced to utilise his command authority.
It so happened that one of the guards that day decided to play punk. Having taken a half day leave in the morning, he refused to come back to do his duty that day, claiming that he had to send his grandmother to the hospital. As all the reserve guards had been activated already by then, CSM had spent the whole day frantically trying to persuade people to do the favour of volunteering to do the duty today, to no avail.
So he decided to draw lots.
No, I was not the unlucky one who drew the lot. I was not 'eligible' for the unlucky draw because I was doing COS only. This guy who'd done the last two Friday guard duties consecutively drew the lot. Now he was really really miffed about it, to say the least. And his unhappiness is actually somewhat justified, because this was the second time he had to don the SBO at the eleventh hour on a Friday evening.
However, he did the unthinkable. On the way up, he knocked the fire extinguisher container glass with his bare hands. The glass broke, and he left a trail of blood as he walked upstairs. All that in full view of our Commanding Officer (aka BIG BOSS).
That guy later had to go to the hospital because the cut was very deep. After a 'chat' with our CO, S4 decided he would activate someone from his own branch to do the duty that day.
So EVERYONE from S4 branch was asked to go upstairs to see CSM. By that time, 'EVERYONE' was only the 5 of us left. The rest of them had sneaked away. Of the five of us, one was doing guard duty the next day, the other one was COS for the day. So only 3 of us were eligible.
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And that was how I ended doing a third final guard duty.
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OMG.. Didn't know things were getting so dramatic in camp!! All the more reason I don't want to go back.. noooo~
# posted by 
: 12:33 PM
: 12:33 PM
for most part, i didn't catch a bit you were saying. But it seems like you're being treated unfairly, so CO of ZC, you better watch out!
haha.
WB
haha.
WB
# posted by : 7:21 PM
: 7:21 PM
So dramatic... Goodness! Is that guy alright? Well at least he spoke up for himself- through the use of violence...
# posted by : 9:13 PM
: 9:13 PM
All it takes is patience and loadsa keywords... I think. Actually not. BLog hop hop hop land here lor. Wat? Not happy to find old fren ah?
Hehe, of course good to see you around lah.
So how's life after ORD?
Where're you now?
So how's life after ORD?
Where're you now?
# posted by : 10:26 AM
: 10:26 AM
Life aft ORD... nice ah. No nothing to worry bout other than money dwindling down. Still lookin for a job tho. At home tidyin up the whole house for the upcomin Raya season... which is a mth later. hehe.
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